Yes. Magical Realism is a very real (no pun intended) and legit genre. It's particularly popular in Latin American literature. While there is use of fabulism and magic to teach lessons/help emphasize the moral of the story, it's actually the opposite of what you'd think with setting. The setting is usually very mundane (or some define it as the "rational" world). The defining factor is that there are incidents of magic or magical elements and they're accepted/not questioned in that setting. So if you break down the name, essentially it's realism with unquestioned elements of magic.
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Date: 2015-04-15 05:11 pm (UTC)There's two Gabriel Garcia Marquez stories that come to mind as ideal examples: "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" (which I read in high school), and "Light is like Water" (which I teach to my freshman).